I got 8/10. I missed the ones about lay/lied/laid and were.

*Cough*
*Shift eyes left*

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[This message has been edited by Vincent Valentine (edited December 11, 2003).]

what the kaking kak.... 2/10
i must have real messed but use of English, becuase today we had one for school, and guess what, I failed it...

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I got a 7/10. Errr!

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10/10. Yay.

The problem with that is that is loss of meaning. For instance, recently there's been a trend to use "they" and "them" as gender-neutral equivilants of the singular pronouns "he/she" and "him/her" (heck, I do it too). The difficulty is, now you're using the same word for both plural and singular pronouns, and confusion arises.

Standardised grammar provides a sort of restraint on the self-destructive tendancies of modern language. Without it, language would constantly be in a state of flux, where meaning could change from one day to the next, and then nobody would be able to communicate effectively.

But then, I'm a writer. I'm biased.

/me shuffles back to the ISB.

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Oh, and, um, I got 8/10. They tricked me with that me/I one, they did. And I stand by "is" in Question 7. Maybe "were" is correct, but by Jove, so is "is"!

7/10. I agree with the Viking. Thankfully, there were no long paragraphs to keep tenses straight. I suck with tenses. They should go to hell and die.

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Yeah, I, uh...sort of always thought it were (tee hee hee!) "I lie down -> I lied down". (I know that "lied" is the past tense of "lie", as in say something contrary to truth, I just thought it applied to this as well.)

Anyway, I thought you knew that Finnish is my first language.

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7/10. Me English bad? Thats unpossible!

Actually, you learning English as a second (or third or whatever) language CAN be a great advantage (assuming that you don't speak English at home?). I speak Norwegian as my first language, and we speak it at home; we never speak English at home. So all the English I know is the English that's been taught to me at school, whereas everyone else would pick it up from their parents. With that, though, they would pick up all the mistakes that the parents would have in their speech, and become easily confused between the English they've learnt from home and grammatically correct school-taught English. However, if you don't speak English at home you avoid that completely, and speak English completely unfettered by your parents' mistakes in their speech!
Not only that, if you are fairly mathmatically minded you may find the study of linguistics much easier, as you can compare the grammar between the two languages and learn English grammar much quicker.